Pakistani Bin Laden Informant Fired Amid Treason Charges
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, March 31, 2012, 6:13 PM
Pakistani authorities jailed Dr. Shakil Afridi for helping the US locate Osama Bin Laden. (Tribune)
The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA uncover Osama Bin Laden’s hideout in Abbattabad was fired recently amid calls for him to face treason charges.
The Tribune reported, via ROP:
Dr Shakil Afridi, a government surgeon who helped the CIA uncover Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts, was sacked by the health department of Thursday, amid calls for him to face treason charges.
“The government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has issued a notification of dismissal of Dr Shakeel Afridi,” provincial health secretary Ashfaq Khan told reporters.
The notification stated that Afridi had been terminated under the Efficiency & Disciplinary (E&D) Rules guideline for being involved in anti-state activities.
Seventeen other health officials, who worked on the same fake vaccination program set up by the CIA in a bid to confirm the al Qaeda chief was living in Abbottabad, have already been sacked from their government posts, he added. Fifteen lady health workers were dismissed last August, and a woman doctor and an assistant coordinator were sacked on March 17.
Afridi, who worked for years as a government surgeon in Khyber Agency, is currently in police custody, while the panel investigating the Bin Laden raid has recommended that Afridi be put on trial for treason.
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Sanmon commented:
Dr Shakil Afridi is still alive and in Pakistan? I thought we would have gotten him out by now? I guess this is the way we treat friendlies, we set them up to be murdered.
wanumba commented:
Treason?
Bin Laden was a Saudi national, not a Pakistani. Not like he was their president and was negotiating away their national defense or anything.
Economan commented:
So…why have we been paying Pakistan billions?
Blackbird commented:
We are granting asylum and paying to import thousands and thousands of troublemakers every month, plane ride, bus ticket, rent money, the whole nine yards; and we didn’t offer asylum to this guy? He is almost as big a hero as the Seal Team members in that affair. I can’t believe we left him twisting in the wind, and people wonder why locals don’t want to work with us.
tommy mc donnell commented:
how much of the american workers income do our politicans give to pakistan?
chuck in st paul commented:
Sounds like a good case for instant US citizenship and a house and car as a reward. We give that kind of stuff to leeches and invaders, why not reward a true helper and friend of America?
Marjorie Yates commented:
This guy’s life has about x more minutes to run.
Chingachgook commented:
Time to get him & any family out of that dung heap. Hopefully, this guy got the reward but if not with as much money as we waste on crap we should get him here pronto. I would love to see him in America to get what he deserves.
Barracuda commented:
Pakistan is no longer a friendly country and hasn’t been for some time now. It’s time we started treating them as such.
Adi commented:
Pakistan is just another closest ally who punches above its weight.
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Colint commented:
A massive reward (5 or was it 50 million $) was offered on Bin Ladin. Pakistan should be told there will be penalties if they do not allow this man and his family to move to the US. Bin Ladin was responsible for the murder of 3,000 people of 50 nationalities
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Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Dr Shakil Afridi is still alive and in Pakistan? I thought we would have gotten him out by now?
Just goes to show what rank amateurs are currently running the show, beginning with the head clown in the White House. Anyone with at least two brain cells to rub together would know that the life of this guy and his family would likely be in danger after helping us find bin Laden, and plans to have him and his family safely on U.S. territory before the Pakistani authorities found out who he was should have been part of the overall operation to get bin Laden.
Idiots.
jorgen commented:
From the article: In January, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed Afridi had aided US intelligence by collecting DNA to verify Bin Laden’s presence
Why is Panetta selling out Afridi?
stuart commented:
Economan #4
So why have we been paying Pakistan billions?
Because they are our ally and friend.
Bob Dylan nailed it decades ago in one of his talking blues.
I got a friend who spends his life
Stabbing my picture with a bowie knife.
Dreams of strangling me with a scarf.
When my name comes up he pretends to barf… I got a million friends.
And so does America Bob, so does America.
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